Meet the
Filmmakers
Benjamin Nolot
Benjamin Nolot is a French American film producer, director, and writer. The son of French immigrant, Francois Nolot, he was born in 1976 in Huntington Beach, California. After being inspired by childhood family friend, Rian Johnson, he started his career as a filmmaker at Saddleback College. He is known for his feature films Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (2011), Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution (2017), and Raised On Porn (2021), and has been nominated for Best Director at multiple film festivals. His films and videos have received more than 40 million views worldwide and have been screened for legislators at the highest levels of government in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Ben Edwards
Leading principal photography for a number of Magic Lantern productions, Ben Edwards has been crafting stories for TV and Film since 2006. Capturing an image that is honest and captivating to the story through cinematography has been a core part of his working career. It's not enough for him to do this on his own, he has prioritized a collaborative environment on each project that he has been a part of, whether that is documentary, commercial, narrative or episodic.
Jonathan Potts
Jonathan Potts is an Emmy Award winning editor whose 20+ year career has included working in a high-intensity newsroom in Washington DC, a global television network and, most recently, a cozy cinematic edit suite at Magic Lantern Pictures. He is passionate about using the medium of filmmaking to tell stories that impact culture. Jonathan’s credits include Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution, Raised on Porn, Liberated: After Spring Break and Beyond Fantasy.
John Samuel Hanson
John Samuel Hanson is a cinematic composer whose ambition is to develop unique and relevant sound canvases in all his work. He owns a company in Los Angeles called Confidential Music which focuses on developing scores for trailer campaigns (work includes Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel, and DC). Between this and setting up a media studio in Japan, John considers it a great privilege to be a part of telling stories that allow people to look into things they may be unaware of.